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ALBERTMURDOOK, NORTH BRIDGEWATER, MASSACHUSETTS, A SSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND HERBERT E. SNOW, OF THE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 88,895, dated April 13, 1869.

-DIPROVEICENT IN SCISSVORS.

The Schedule referred to in thele Letters Patent and. making part of the Intim.v

To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, ALBERT MURDocK, of North Bridgewater, Plymouth county, Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved Spring-Scissors; and I do hereby declare that'the following is a full, clear, and

. exact description thereof,wh ich will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the.;accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

.Figure l represents a side view of my improved spring-scissors.

Figure 2 is .an edge view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has for its obj ect to construct scissors which can be constantly kept in the hand without being in the way of other work to be done, so that they may be used on sewing-machines, for clipping threads, and other purposes, without requiring the machine to be stopped, and also for other purposes.

The invention consists in arranging on o'ne blade, which is provided with `a 'ring-handle, another blade,

without a handle, and held open by a spring.

These scissors canbe suspended, by the ring, on the little finger of the right hand,.and will not interfere with other wolk to be .done by the same hand, while they can readily be placed with the blades between the thumb and fore-finger, whenl to be used for clipping thread, cutting cloth, and other purposes.

Heretofore, when, on a machine, scissors hadfto be used, the machine had to be stopped, in order to enable the operator to take up and use the scissors. Much time was thus lost. -With the aid of my invention, the machine does not have to be stopped at alt when the scissors'are to be used, and still the scissors will be out of the way when not used.

A, in the drawing, represents one blade of the scissors, provided 4with a shank or handle, B, on which a ring, a, is formed.

C is the other blade, pivoted, by means of a pin, b,

to the blade A. I

be'operated by at intervals forcing the blades together.'

I claim as new, and desire to secure by. Letters Patent-'- As anewarticle of manufacture, springfscissors,

provided with one shank, having one ring, a, and with the spring D, substantially as described, tooperate as specied'.

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 5th day of February, 1869.

ALBERT MURDOOK. Witnesses:

'DANIEL OROCKER, -ALIGE O. BIXBY. 

